Read the following passage:
i knew how to act and the right things to say, but i felt like a
phony. i really cared about lilly and i wanted her parents to
like me, but this world was so different from mine. i wasn't
comfortable in these clothes or around their friends. i felt
like they could see right through me - like they knew
where i came from and who my parents were.
what is one plot development that would make the cultural conflict worse in
this story?
a. lilly's parents unknowingly criticize the profession of the narrator's
father.
b. the narrator becomes upset with himself for acting like someone
he's not.
c. the narrator shares his insecurities with lilly, who considers them
carefully
d. lilly tells the narrator she is going away to college and suggests
they should break up.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification